Sr Privacy Counsel (Hiring Immediately)

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more.

Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly.

The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.

What we do:

We have a well established Legal department comprising c65 employees with our Privacy team in particular, having representation across the globe.

As our second dedicated Privacy Lawyer in London, we are looking for you to take a prominent role in advising our business on a variety of matters, helping drive our strategic approach to privacy issues around the globe. You will work extensively with colleagues across both legal and the business across all functional areas to help ensure privacy compliance and risk management. You must therefore, be able to exercise sound, independent legal judgment in fast-paced, high-stakes circumstances, and have a proven track record working collaboratively with business counterparts, translating complex legal and privacy issues into practical and creative solutions.

What you'll do:

• Exercise exceptional judgement to advise The Trade Desk team and contribute to the overall success of the business.
• Structure, draft, review, and negotiate data protection terms in a variety of commercial agreements including master service agreements, DPAs, and data supplier agreements.
• Identify, research, analyse, and advise teams on a wide range of data privacy issues and risks.
• Keep abreast of evolving privacy laws that may affect the company globally.
• Work hands-on with business and product teams to support the implementation of privacy risk management and compliance.
• Continually improve our legal processes to help us scale globally with a consistent but locally relevant approach.

Who you are:

• A UK qualified Solicitor with a minimum of 6 years' post qualified experience having trained and qualified at an internationally recognised law firm
• Experience in advising clients on privacy matters and legislation, consumer protection, and global privacy laws & regulations (such as EU/UK GDPR and other international data protection frameworks).
• Effective communicator, with the ability to work closely with legal team colleagues, as well as business and product team members.
• Superior analytical skills with a creative and pragmatic problem-solving approach.
• Excellent legal skills, including meaningful experience in structuring, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex agreements
• Strong commitment to providing responsible, timely, and top-quality client service with superior work product.
• Ability to thrive in fast paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills (sense of humor is a big plus).
• Background in advertising and/or digital media is preferred.

The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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